From ‘The 613,’ by Archie Rand (all images by Archie Rand, courtesy Blue Rider Press) In the year 2000, Brooklyn-born painter Archie Rand embarked on the most ambitious project of his career: He would ...

Three Jewish families are among a group of nine Louisiana families with children in public schools who have filed a suit in federal court challenging a new state law that requires the Ten Commandments ...

A push for religious symbols in the public square is “bad for having a culture in which lots of different religious traditions including Judaism are allowed to flourish.” One week after Louisiana Gov.

Texans have dodged a religious bullet. In the recent state legislative session, lawmakers almost passed Senate Bill 1515, which would have required the display of the Ten Commandments in public school ...

Like many Jewish Louisianans, I followed with interest the so-called “Ten Commandments” bill which Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry signed into law this week. It requires public schools, including ...

Where I live in Johannesburg there is a famous story from some decades ago about the conductor of a shul choir who was rehearsing with his choristers. In that synagogue, the Berea Shul, the choir room ...

Tradition says it was the moment Jews became a chosen “holy nation,” not just by ancestry, belief or geography, but by covenant. Many faiths, including Christians, Muslims and Hindus, claim a sacred ...

Re: letter "Religion coming to Ohio's classrooms?", Feb. 20: I wish I were a betting man. I would have raked in some dough by wagering that letter writer Steve McLoughlin would claim that the ...

Earlier this summer, Republican Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry signed into law a requirement that all public classrooms display the Ten Commandments. Broadly similar laws are moving through ...

A granite monument of the Ten Commandments on Texas State Capitol grounds in Austin, Texas. (Photo via Library of Congress. Design by Jackie Hajdenberg via JTA>org.) Jackie Hajdenberg Three Jewish ...